October 8, 2009
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2009
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
WTF's Marc Maron on why trying to get hired at E! felt like the bowels of hell. Plus, the story of his big TV commercial break (which ended in a small child from Texas weeping uncontrollably).
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| 0:00.0 | At Proximum, Con-William, you're listening to TDTL. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah! |
| 0:12.0 | They say the hardest part of rollerblading is telling your parents your gay. |
| 0:16.0 | And, you gotta say, I found that to be true today. |
| 0:19.0 | I went over there and read the rollerblades from his gentleman Clarence to sign the forms |
| 0:23.0 | and then said, have you told your parents your gay? |
| 0:25.0 | And I said, no. |
| 0:26.0 | And they said, well, we can't give you these rollerblades. |
| 0:28.0 | And as I always thought that was a joke and they said, no, it's not. |
| 0:31.0 | So, I drove out to my parents' house in Santa Monica and had to talk with them. |
| 0:37.0 | And that was the toughest part of the day. |
| 0:40.0 | The rollerblading itself, not that difficult. |
| 0:43.0 | My parents' culture doesn't really know about the gay culture. |
| 0:46.0 | They said, Xinjiang, are you sure? |
| 0:48.0 | I said, yeah, I'm sure. |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, can we just hurry this up? |
| 0:51.0 | I want to get out there on the beach, you know. |
| 0:53.0 | And just have some fun, get the blades going. |
| 0:56.0 | I mean, breaking stuff, turns are tough. |
| 0:59.0 | But telling your parents your gay is the hardest part of rollerblading. |
| 1:02.0 | No skinned knees, no awkward conversations with parents. |
| 1:07.0 | Just a Thursday afternoon edition of TBTL, the show that's probably too beautiful to live. |
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